Siduwine

Male
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Discussion of the name

Siduwine is an Old English masculine name comprising the elements sidu ‘custom, manner, conduct, purity’ and wine ‘friend, protector, lord’.

The only entry for Siduwine in the PASE corpus is Siduwine 1, a catch-all category for occurrences of this name in DB. There are, however, five PASE entries for the name Sidewine, which von Feilitzen (1937: 359) regarded as linguistically identical with Siduwine. All five instances of Sidewine occur in the period 979-1005, with Sidewine 1 being a witness (from Paddlesworth in Kent) to a Rochester charter and Sidewine 2-5 being moneyers associated with Cambridge, Rochester (twice) and London; it is possible that all five instances refer to a single person. Although a small handful of further instances are given by Searle (1897: 416-17), it is clear that the names Siduwine and Sidewine were extremely rare.

Bibliography

Searle 1897: W. G. Searle, Onomasticon Anglo-Saxonicum (Cambridge, 1897)

von Feilitzen 1937: O. von Feilitzen, The Pre-Conquest Personal Names of Domesday Book (Uppsala, 1937)

Forms of the name

Spellings in Domesday Book: Sedu(u)in(us)

Spellings in Exon: Seduuinus

Forms in modern scholarship:

  von Feilitzen head forms: Siduwine

  Phillimore edition: Sidwin

  Alecto edition: Siduwine

Distribution map of property and lordships associated with this name in DB

List of property and lordships associated with this name in DB

Holder 1066

Shire Phil. ref. Vill DB Spelling Holder 1066 Lord 1066 Tenant-in-Chief 1086 1086 Subtenant Fiscal Value 1066 Value 1086 Value Conf. Show on Map
Devon 16,98 Ponsford Seduuinus Siduwine 'of Ponsford' - Baldwin the sheriff William Black 0.50 0.50 0.50 D Map
Devon 17,86 Brixton Seduin Siduwine 'of Brixton' - Judhael of Totnes William 'the man of Judhael of Totnes' 0.50 0.75 0.75 D Map
Devon 35,5 Tamerlande Seduinus Siduwine 'of Tamerlande' - Roald the dubbed Walter d'Omonville 0.25 2.00 0.50 D Map
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